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General discussion on ASCII art. Unicode art, ANSI, figlet, image2ascii, historical interests, questions, etc. All are welcome!
[NSFW] I want to get off — I just put together a mirror for a large ASCII art collection called "The ASCII Universe". As I was paging through some of the files, this one caught my eye. [preformatted] gopher//mozz.us:7070/mirrors/retrojunkie/
💬 5 likes · 2023-09-26 · 3 days ago
Scarecrow's ASCII Art Gallery — Bob Allison (aka "scarecrow") was a newgroup moderator and notable ASCII art collector in the early 90's. I was scrolling through one of his archive files, and I jotted down some notes on the pieces that I found particularly interesting....
💬 1 comment · 5 likes · 2023-09-23 · 5 days ago
Bluey — Some fan art for Bluey. As a parent, this is my favorite show on TV right now. It has the same kind of magic as early simpsons, which is hard to describe, but where the last 10 seconds can hit you in the gut with a wholesome message. [preformatted] Bonus: Here's my initial version, which was smaller scale and came out kind of derpy. It has its own derpy charm. [preformatted]
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · 2023-09-22 · 7 days ago
Surf the Internet — It's a thing of beauty. [preformatted] (bonus, the original drawing is a 3d stereogram where you're supposed to cross your eyes to see it properly) [preformatted]
💬 2 comments · 7 likes · 2023-09-15 · 2 weeks ago
I created Patate, it is an ascii art editor for the terminal (linux). [gemini link]
💬 7 comments · 4 likes · 2023-09-12 · 2 weeks ago
Nice bird — [preformatted]
💬 5 likes · 2023-09-11 · 3 weeks ago
cartwheel [preformatted] bike crash [preformatted] bike crash turned into cartwheel [preformatted] (diddled from a few reference pictures, authors unknown)
💬 1 comment · 3 likes · 2023-09-11 · 3 weeks ago
White Tower — Found this one randomly. I don't see much usenet-era ASCII art this large scale. [preformatted]
💬 9 likes · 2023-06-17 · 3 months ago
The McGuire Twins — Billy and Benny McCrary, the "world's fattest twins", riding their motorcycles across the country as part of a Honda promotion. [preformatted]
💬 5 likes · 2023-06-12 · 4 months ago
Turtle Island — [preformatted]
💬 13 likes · 2023-06-07 · 4 months ago
About ASCII Art and jgs font — New article from french artist Adel Faure that goes into some of the history of ASCII art along with a custom font they designed. Also be sure to check out their website, which is designed entirely in ASCII!
💬 2 comments · 2023-06-01 · 4 months ago
T-Rex — While I'm not thrilled with how some of the finer details turned out, I'm happy with the overall scale and the 3d effect. [preformatted] We need more ASCII dinos! Rowland Crawford made a couple of interesting ones: [preformatted] [preformatted] (This one is supposed to be kicking its foot towards the camera but its hard to make out with my font.) And this one from snd made me chuckle [preformatted]
💬 8 likes · 2023-05-30 · 4 months ago
Golf Swing — This is a "stroboscopic" image, which is a unique type of photography that involves taking multiple flashes in quick succession to capture different stages of movement in a single frame. It's one of the few techniques used to express movement in a static picture. [preformatted]
💬 2 comments · 5 likes · 2023-05-25 · 4 months ago
Hummingbird — The logo from @indieterminacye's qiuynonical project. "Hummingbirds generate a trail of wake vortices under each wing while hovering." - wikipedia [preformatted]
💬 1 like · 2023-05-22 · 4 months ago
My girl Sandra Bullock — This one took a while, and several revisions. [preformatted]
💬 6 likes · 2023-05-21 · 4 months ago
Trying to get serious about my ASCII — I've dabbled for a while, but this is what I consider my first attempt at an actual serious piece. Behold, [The Tower by Beetledjuice] The fine-tuning took a bit longer than I'd like to admit, but overall I'm quite proud of it.
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · 2023-05-19 · 4 months ago
Using Figlet Fonts to Make ASCII Banners — If you use Linux you can use figlet to create simple ascii banners. [preformatted] The program uses "figlet font" files with the extension 'flf' or 'tfl', which you can find on the web. Very old school. We should probably make a repository of them here. [contents of pagga.tfl]
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · 2023-05-18 · 4 months ago
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — A new picture of link that I made to celebrate the hours that I've been pouring into Tears of the Kingdom this week. [preformatted]
💬 1 comment · 5 likes · 2023-05-18 · 4 months ago
The first letter of my name. [preformatted] I didn't make this by hand :( I just made an image and used Station's profile pic converter. But I still think it looks super cool.
💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2023-05-17 · 4 months ago
— The "Omloppsbanan" orbit page
Omloppsbanan ("The Orbit") — My first attempt to make ascii art. It is the logo for an orbit I host, whose name is a pun. It is a swedish word that means "orbit" (literally "the circulatory path"), but could also be interpreted as "the circulatory banana". I wanted to make something that looked like the old "Space Lego" logo. I also sneaked in some ascii art bananas and a signature hidden in the comet. Enjoy! [ASCII art...
💬 2 comments · 3 likes · 2023-05-17 · 4 months ago
Q: Please forgive my ignorance, is this for manually-made ASCII art only or is algorithmically and downloaded art cool, too?
💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2023-05-16 · 4 months ago
Cats — This is my favorite cat. I love the way that Felix uses the shape in the "4" to outline the face. It's super difficult to pull of this much expressiveness in only 4 lines. [preformatted] Here's another one. Again, a very expressive pose and you just know this cat is laying in a sunny spot on a carpet somewhere. The carpet lines add an interesting background texture without distracting from the image. [preformatted]
💬 6 likes · 2023-05-16 · 4 months ago
i tried [preformatted]
💬 4 comments · 2023-05-16 · 4 months ago
Castles — One of my favorite castles, by Stephen C.E.S. Wilson [preformatted]
💬 4 likes · 2023-05-16 · 4 months ago